A formal definition of Big Data based on its essential features

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Big Data in Smart Farming – A review (2017, background): “Big Data represents the information assets characterizedbysuchahighvolume,velocityandvarietytorequirespe-ci ﬁ c technology andanalytical methodsforits transformationintovalue (De Mauro et al., 2016).”
Big data in healthcare: management, analysis and future prospects (2019, background): “Although, other people have added several other Vs to this definition [2], the most accepted 4th V remains ‘veracity’.”
Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation (2021, background): “Big data Many definitions exist [1], but we cast “big data” as information content for analyses whose volumes are too large to handle for users with conventional hardware.”
Big Data as a Governance Mechanism (2019, methodology): “A consensual definition of big data is “the information asset characterized by such a high volume, velocity and variety to require specific technology and analytical methods for its transformation into value” (De Mauro et al. 2016, p. 1).”
Big data for cyber physical systems in industry 4.0: a survey (2019, methodology): “The most-widely used characteristics of Big Data is the ‘ 3 Vs ’ : volume, velocity, and variety (Laney 2001; De Mauro, Greco, and Grimaldi 2016).”